| Acronym | Meaning |
| PAB | Passenger-side Air Bag |
| BLM | Bilayer Lipid Membrane |
| DAM | Military Applications Branch (French; Direction Des Applications Militaires) |
| CASAC | Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (US EPA) |
| HUD | Housing And Urban Development |
| BEST | Basic Extractive Sludge Treatment |
| ESIE | Electron Stimulated Ion Emission |
| ABLE | Arctic Boundary Layer Expedition |
| FNAL | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| WPCR | Water Pollution Control Research (US EPA) |